Week 4 Collage

What's unexpected? Maybe the fact that there are multicolored teddy grahams popping up all over the keyboard of an ancient PC? Perhaps the fact that there is a girl with her tongue out who magically fits on a key?
...or that the keyboard magically spells...

YUM


CRAFT
The keyboard I photographed was ridiculously old and dusty, so I applied the sume-i filter. I used the smudge brush on Rebecca and the teddy grahams. I blacked out the letters on the keyboard and replaced them to spell YUM. I tampered with the hue and saturation of the teddy grahams in order to make them flow with the colors Rebecca was wearing. I applied craquelure to the whole image to give some consistency. I was going for a more painted look rather than a photographed one.

CONCEPT
Whenever I am working on homework, I am usually munching on some Teddy Grahams. Many of my assignments require the use of a computer, so I'm usually eating teddy grahams while at my laptop. I didn't think to combine the images of Rebecca, the teddies, and the keyboard when I took my photos, but as I dabbled around with the images I had, the message became clearer to me. I positioned the bears behind the keys and Rebecca standing on the keys trying to taste the snacks. After critique, I have realized that the homework aspect of the art is missing. I have some ideas on how to fix this that will appear in my next edition.

COMPOSITION
The teddy grahams are popping up between the keys of the keyboard with Rebecca trying to taste them. I positioned both her and the teddies where I felt necessary in order to balance the image. I dulled the keyboard so that Rebecca and the teddies stood out more. The colors of the teddies were changed to match Rebecca so that they did not take precedence in the image, as she is the first thing I wanted the viewer to see.